When you read the description of a child or teen labeled with Oppositional Defiant Disorder you think it is inevitable that those teens will end up in schools for troubled teens. They are described as negative, aggressively hostile, strong-willed, spiteful, forward….well, you get the idea, these troubled teens are supposed to be train wrecks.
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Parents are already likely aware of the newest and startling report detailing the state of teen age drug abuse and the rampant amount of prescription drug abuse by teens at risk. The most startling aspect of the report, however, was not the alarming numbers of offending teens but that parents are either, for the […]
Very frequently those who work in some form of teen crisis intervention come away from their experiences working with troubled teens with quite a few uplifting moments and stories.
Such is the case with one individual efforts to reach gang members. The result was a harmony of voices where once there was only discord. The most […]